Who: Energetic, optimistic professional with 20+ years of progressive accomplishments in driving growth, cross-sell, retention, credit risk management, and strategic decision making in both individual contributor and leadership roles. How: Focus on (1) leadership, (2) collaborative / consultative practice and (3) analytical excellence. Why: I'm passionate about empowering the organization to compete on analytics, so that timely integration, access, and synthesis of information creates a distinct competitive business advantage."The key then lies not in better information, but in turning information into information that cannot be ignored." -- Jim Collins, Good to GreatSpecialties: Functional Areas: Strategic Analysis, Relationship Management, Project Management, Coaching and Mentoring, Marketing Effectiveness and ROI, Retention Modeling, Cross-Sell Modeling, Dashboards and Business Metrics, CRM / Campaign Management, Database Marketing, Client Segmentation, PricingTechnical Skills: Data Mining, Regression, Time Series Forecasting, Decision Trees, Stochastic Gradient Boosted Trees, Machine Learning, Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis, Design of Experiments, Nonparametric and Exact Statistics, Statistical Quality Control, SAS Programming, Large Scale Data Manipulation, Third Party Data